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DEFINITION: n. A type of frustration created by a manager who never notices when you work late, but always nags you for leaving early whenever you leave on time. v. To carefully monitor your subordinates to ensure that they never leave work a minute early.
Verboticisms
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Hourgrass
Created by: Jabberwocky
Pronunciation: our/grass
Sentence: Stan was the company hourgrass and would tattle on anyone who took a minute longer for coffee breaks or lunch. He had a special alarm that would sound if the door was opened before 5:00 p.m.
Etymology: hour glass + grass (as in tattle)
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COMMENTS:
Stan sounds like a grasshole! - Nosila, 2009-06-16: 10:48:00
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Tockpsychology
Created by: Nosila
Pronunciation: tok sik ol ogee
Sentence: Mr. Grant was the devil for playing tockpsychology games on his employees. Even if they came in at 6:00 am, he'd watch anyone leaving before 5:30 pm and make snide comments on their lack of dedication.
Etymology: Tock (as in Tick Tock, the sound of a clock) & Psychology (the science of mental life) & Wordplay on toxicology (the branch of pharmacology that deals with the nature and effects and treatments of poisons)
Metermaidservant
Created by: bookowl
Pronunciation:
Sentence: Rita is a lovely metermaidservant who worships the clock.
Etymology: meter maid + maid servant
Taskmasterror
Created by: Tigger
Pronunciation: /task-mas-TER-or/
Sentence: Ruth worked late four days out of the week, but she would sometimes have to leave early to pick up her daughter from daycare. On those days her boss, Mr. Petty, would make snide remarks if he saw her getting ready to leave, and she always had a feeling of taskmasterror that he was keeping track of every time she left work early and keeping it in her personnel file.
Etymology: Taskmaster - a person who supervises rigorously the work of others (from Middle English, taske "imposed work, tax" & Old English, magister "great") + Terror - intense, overpowering fear (from Latin, terrēre "to frighten")
Clockadoodledue
Created by: Nosila
Pronunciation: klok a doo dell doo
Sentence: Cylla Stration thought it would be a fun job drawing for a comic book company. Until she met her boss, Mr.Art Work. His policy was that no artist left for the day unless they completed a whole comic book. So he sat by the only exit, by the time clock and monitored his staff. No one left until they could clockadoodledue.
Etymology: Clock (time measurement piece) & Doodle (scribble a drawing on paper) & Due (something owed)
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COMMENTS:
clever - Jabberwocky, 2009-06-16: 13:11:00
Cute! - Mustang, 2009-06-17: 00:47:00
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Bossitch
Created by: abrakadeborah
Pronunciation: bos-itch
Sentence: Mr. Needler Nosey was such a bositch to his employees and only noticed what he presumed was bad behavior.
Etymology: Boss- A person in charge of the company employees. *itch- Slang for a person who complains about everything.
Clockstalk
Created by: Stevenson0
Pronunciation: klok/stawk
Sentence: Jim, our obnoxious, irritating, micro manager, clockstalks every employee ensuring that they give 110% of their working time to the company.
Etymology: clock + stalk
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COMMENTS:
Good one! - Mustang, 2009-06-17: 00:45:00
this is priceless! - mweinmann, 2009-06-17: 07:46:00
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Stimie
Created by: karenanne
Pronunciation: STY mee
Sentence: Early on in his new job, Ernest made the mistake of working late every day to catch up and to prove himself, thinking that would place him in the boss's good favor. Instead, it means that the boss, who himself doesn't usually hit the office until 10 am, has now forgotten Ernest's actual contract hours and assumes he will always be there until 7 pm. So now when Ernest decides to leave on time (5 pm) to actually spend time with his family, he is stimied at every turn by the boss's obvious disapproval. The boss likes to do such things as staring pointedly at his watch, sighing loudly and saying, "I guess I'll have to stay and finish things by myself tonight since there won't be anyone here to help," and making comments about how "people who are team players will the ones to keep their jobs when cuts are made." The funny thing is, Ernest has actually begun to feel guilty and acts apologetic as he is leaving (on time).
Etymology: time + stymie (to frustrate, hinder, or thwart)
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COMMENTS:
Truer words never spoken... - Nosila, 2010-06-29: 19:25:00
My first thought was "clocksucker" but then I figured I had already put in my share of vulgarity a couple of months ago with "dicktionary," "motherducker," and "bitchnessperson."
- karenanne, 2010-06-29: 19:40:00
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Tocktickrelationship
Created by: galwaywegian
Pronunciation: tok tik ree lay shun ship
Sentence: The interaction, which had always borne the hallmarks of a tocktickrelationship ended badly. The subsequent surgical attempts to reverse the offense which led to its demise proved unsuccessful, leading to extreme embarassment every time her now ex-boss had to travel abroad. He would regularly be stopped and stripsearched at airports and advised by security staff that it was the first time they had found somebody trying to smuggle a twenty dollar watch out of the country using that particular technique.
Etymology: tock tick, toxic relationship
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COMMENTS:
reminds me of the crocodile in Peter Pan but then that would be a croctocktickrelationship - Jabberwocky, 2008-04-23: 08:59:00
But this is just pretend so it is a mocktocktickrelationship, but if it was in the clinic, it would be a doctocktickrelationship or in a gym, a jocktocktickrelationship or in a hosiery store, a socktocktickrelationship...it's endless possibilities! - Nosila, 2008-04-23: 20:34:00
...or between sports acne physicians, a pockmarkjockdoctocktickrelationship - stache, 2008-04-23: 21:57:00
What have I begun? - galwaywegian, 2008-04-24: 04:40:00
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Drachronian
Created by: OZZIEBOB
Pronunciation: drey-KROH-nee-uhn
Sentence: "Time is money" yelled Bob so often at his long-suffering staff, that all were finally diagnosed as suffering from drachronian's syndrome, and placed indefinitely on tick leave.
Etymology: Blend of DRACO of draconian fame: Athenian lawgiver who mandated death as punishment for even minor crimes. Fig: severe, inflexible, ruthless. CHRONO, Gk meaning time, as in chronology. DRACULA: ogre, terror, bugbear. IA: suffix meaning disease, state, condition.
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COMMENTS:
funny - Jabberwocky, 2008-04-23: 08:56:00
Perfect! - ErWenn, 2008-04-23: 09:49:00
I like the 'chrono' inflection...great word. - Mustang, 2008-04-23: 21:57:00
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Comments:
Today's definition was suggested by remistram. Thank you remistram. ~ James
stache - 2008-04-23: 22:10:00
slackervisor looks a little like hank hill.
daniellegeorge - 2008-04-24: 13:17:00
clockblock is genius
- 2008-07-27: 19:30:00
nice words
bob - 2008-07-27: 22:57:00
nice stuff!
wordmeister - 2008-07-27: 23:43:00
Timely words today
Today's definition was suggested by remistram. Thank you remistram. ~ James
Where is everybody today? Vacations galore?
monkey88 - 2011-11-18: 01:36:00